Copper Shock

Tasha Wheelhouse

Copper Shock is a story telling channel in the form of old radio Foley sounds and music. Sit back and enjoy original scary stories read by Tasha Wheelhouse. Some stories are based on true life events, while others explore the dark and unexpected.

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This is Tasha Wheelhouse with Copper Shock.

Many of you who are listening know this horror podcast from 3 years ago. I got about 26 episodes before I let it fall apart. That’s on me, my personal life made it invariably difficult to find the time and I slowly started to sink into an insecurity that my ideas, my writing, my production isn’t good enough. But I’m going to tell you right now. The immediate thought that counters that is two fans from across the world that reached out to me when I went dark. So Brandon and Caitlin if you’re still out there listening, the both of you made me realize I can do this even after all this time. My personal circumstance has changed, as life does, and I’m going to be putting in more dedicated time to Coppershock. I am so VERY grateful for all of you who have been there to support me while I was able to produce what little I could from home between my jobs and dedicated home life.

Growing up my parents were writers, and were able to make a career out of it full time. They gravitated to storytelling in the vein of Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand Faces, and Dramatically Theory. Naturally, over the years, there have been other books they have recommended to me, or storytelling seminars. Stephen Kings On Writing, Blake Snyders Save the Cat!, or William Goldman’s Which Lie Did I Tell? All with amazing nuggets of information for story structure.

Where to hear more of my thoughts that expand of these books? By following Copper Shocks Facebook page. In addition to podcast episodes told in the Foley style here, I’ll be posting blog entries of story structure of all manner of horror films. From the Classics of Nosforatu, up through modern horror.

I’d LOVE to write an essay one day about the evolution of horror and how it reflects modern society’s fears. In the 1950’s “body snatcher” aliens were a metaphor for Communists. People who look like you and me, and yet are a threat. Remember how suddenly Zombies were a huge cultural thing in the mid to late 2000’s? There was a massive terrorist in New York City on 9/11 attack that spurred on the idea that an enemy could multiply around you in moments of sheer panic. I’m very curious to know what the next trend will be here and now during the Coravirus pandemic? What is a common fear we all share? And How do we tell that story?

I hope you have a wonderful day, and cannot wait to give you the next long-awaited episode. Bloody Mary, a personal childhood experience of mine playing Bloody mary for the first time as a child during a sleepover dare.

I’m Tasha Wheelhouse, and this is Copper Shock.